Clicking noise of death is it still possible to retrieve data on usb enclosure?
ive read about usb hardisk enclosures and that they can make your hardrive act as an external hardrive so that you can transfer data etc but i was wondering if this works with a laptop hardisk, if it is safe to take the hardisk out of my laptop, is it reliable, successful or even possible after i have heard the clicking noise of death and had blue screen and IDE error ?? please help

If i transfer my external disk onto a usb enclosure will i be able to connect it to the usb on the enclosure?
as the usb port for my 500gb freeagent is broken ?thanks

How to safely remove an hard disk in a usb enclosure?
I used the safely remove feature in winxp, but my hard disk is still ON and there are still sounds. Will it be safe to just plug it out or switch it to OFF at the back of the enclosure? Is this the same thing happening in my pc during a shut down?

How can I recover data from a hard disk that is formatted in win3.1 or win95 on an XP comp via usb enclosure?
I have an old hard disk that is either win3.1 or win 95. I have attached it to a usb hard drive enclosure to a win xp machine. XP will recognise the enclosure and disk but the hard drive will not appear on the " my computer" panel. I would like to copy this very ancient data.

My backup hard drive quite working, it is a laptop drive that i have in a usb enclosure. Is there any way to ?
The stuff i have on the drive is really importan and I dont care how much i have to spend on getting it. When i plug in the hard drive it does nothing. is there any way to out the part that has the stuff written on it into another drive to read it? it has the only pictures in existance of my fiance and son on it and they are not with us anymore.My laptop quit working and that was my backup.I know its not the enclosure i have another drive i tried in it.Also have tried putting it in my laptop it does not spin

Built a new pc with a sata hd and windows xp home. put my old 20gig ide hd w/ 98se in external usb enclosure.?
My intent was to transfer files from old hd to new hd. when i plugged in the old hd it accepted the device. I checked by going into device mgr. and then disks and it appears as the 2nd device after my sata drive. But there is no icon, nor have I found any other way to to move the files. Please advise if there are any windows functions i can use to do this or do i need some software to facilitate this process.

I just connect my 2.5 ide laptop hard drive to usb enclosure and plug and play it works.?
i just connect my laptop 2.5 ide hard drive to usb enclosure, i plug and play. when i took it out,and plugged again, it didn't work anymore. i checked the device manager, it showed no driver is installed, code 10 . could any one help me to solve the problem,many thanks

USB enclosure?
During the storm my computer got burned. HD is ok, I took it out and got USB enclosure for it. I searched the web to find out how to boot my laptop from the enclosed drive with windows on it. Can not find. I wounder if it is possible to boot from the enclosed drive using windows on the enclosed drive, I need to use the software installed on it. My bios does not have boot from usb option.

IDE-to-USB enclosure. Why isn't it working?
Basically I set the jumper to master, and nothing is happening.The computer recognizes it's a hard drive, but it's not showing under my computer. After going into Computer Management, it showed that it's Unknown and Unreadable. What's going on? Wiaam T I didn't format it, but I don't know how. I'm using Vista now, and the steps for XP are different. Can you please tell me where to format it on Vista?Also, is it possible to not format it? Because if I do format it, won't I lose all my data on there?

Why must I format a used drive? USB enclosure with 2.5 used laptop hard drive?
I have a used laptop hard driver in an ide to usb enclosure. After installing drivers the laptop drive appears in " My Computer." When I click to access the drive a window appears saying " The disk in drive H is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" I do not want to format it now or ever, for that matter.THe laptop drive is connected to a desktop via ide to usb enclosure. THe computer it is connected to is running Windows 98.Also, a side note. THe usb cable supplied with the enclosure has a usb plug on one end and 2 usb plugs on the other. Why is that?THanks

What 2.5" External USB enclosure should I get for my 80GB Seagate drive?
Hey all, I just sold a laptop that doesn't function anymore but the hard drive is still good and I've got data such as family pictures on there that are important to me. I'm planning to hook up my old hard drive to my current computer so that I could my important data on CDs. However, I've heard that some external USB enclosures are risky to use because they do not allow proper airflow to the hard drive and they end up running so hot that they fry. I don't want to pay a big load, but I'd rather do that than lose some of the family pictures I have on the drive. So what is an external USB enclosure for a 2.5" laptop hard drive that will allow proper airflow and allow me to retrieve this data?Thanks

Harddrive question USB enclosure?
I have an internal 1tb Western Digital harddrive.I bought this to somehow connect it to my computer via USB...Do I need an enclosure for that?Reason is, I want to later connect it to my laptop when im traveling, or just have it mobile.What do I need, a hard drive enclosure?Any recommendations? What brand, what kind?Thanks for the help.

I have an NTFS dynamic SATA drive in a USB enclosure. I can't get any other computer to read the drive?
I've messed around with partitions and ntfs, fat16 32 before, but I'm not completely sure what I'm doing. I have a usb enclosure that I put a hard drive in, and its formatted ntfs as a dynamic disk. I now realize i should have made it a basic drive, but I use this drive for backup and now I'm worried that I won't be able to recover anything off of it if my computer crashes. Is that true? How can i get another computer to read this drive?I use vista, but i have an old xp sp2 laptop. when I plug the drive into the xp laptop, it detects the drive but can't see any volumes on it. A mac also didn't work.